Communication between source organs (exporters of photoassimilates) and sink organs
(importers of fixed carbon) has a pivotal role in carbohydrate assimilation and partitioning …

Securing food production for the growing population will require closing the gap between
potential crop productivity under optimal conditions and the yield captured by farmers under …

Plants capture solar energy and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) through photosynthesis,
which is the primary component of crop yield, and needs to be increased considerably to …

Significant improvements in crop productivity are required to meet the nutritional
requirements of a growing world population. This challenge is magnified by an increased …

To elucidate the starch synthesis pathway and the role of this reserve in rice pollen, we
characterized mutations in the plastidic phosphoglucomutase, OspPGM, and the plastidic …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important food crop species in China. Cultivating high-yielding
rice varieties that have a high photosynthetic efficiency is an important goal of rice breeding …

This study aimed to understand the physiological basis of rice photosynthetic response to C
source–sink imbalances, focusing on the dynamics of the photosynthetic parameter triose …

Highlights•Changes in plant morphogenetic patterns impact yield but knowledge about
underlying mechanism (s) is scarce.•Source limitations is one of the main constrains for crop …

Computational models of plants have identified gaps in our understanding of biological
systems, and have revealed ways to optimize cellular processes or organ‐level architecture …

Although an alternative pathway has been suggested, the prevailing view is that starch
synthesis in cereal endosperm is controlled by the activity of the cytosolic isoform of …